Plone - Definition and Overview

Screenshot of default Plone install

This article is about free software. You might be looking for Plone, the music band.

Plone is a free software, extensible content management system written in the Python programming language based on the Zope. It can be used as an intranet and extranet server, a document publishing system, and a groupware tool for collaboration between separately located entities.

The Plone project was started in 1999 by Alan Runyan, Alexander Limi, and Vidar Andersen. It has quickly grown into one of the most popular and powerful open source content management systems in the world. In 2004, the Plone Foundation was formed to protect and promote the use of Plone.

Plone is released under the GNU General Public License. It is built on top of the open source application server Zope and the accompanying Content Management Framework, which has thousands of developers around the world supporting it.

The name Plone is taken from the Warp Records band Plone.

See also

• Content management
• Web content management

External links

• Plone website (http://plone.org/)
• Plone products (http://www.contentmanagementsoftware.info/plone/)
• Plone 1.0 release note (http://plone.org/about/mediakit/pressreleases/plone1.0-release/view)
• Russian Zope/Plone user group (http://plone.org.ru/)
• ZopeMag regularly publishes article on Plone (http://www.zopemag.com/)
• eWeek Labs Analyst's Choice (http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1557819,00.asp). Jim Rapoza, "Plone Improves Usability, Flexibility." eWeek March 29, 2004 review of Plone 2.0.
• Brazilian Zope/Plone user group (http://www.tchezope.org/)